| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 180, 2018
EFM17 – Experimental Fluid Mechanics 2017
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| Article Number | 02020 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Contributions | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201818002020 | |
| Published online | 04 June 2018 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201818002020
Temperature profiles measurements in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection by optical fibre system at the Barrel of II-menau
1
Institute of Scientific Instruments of the CAS, v.v.i., Královopolská 147, Brno, Czech Republic
2
Technische Universität Ilmenau, Institute of Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics, 98684 Ilmenau, Germany
* e-mail: drahotsky@isibrno.cz
Published online: 4 June 2018
Modelling of large-scale natural (thermally-generated) turbulent flows (such as the turbulent convection in Earth’s atmosphere, oceans, or Sun) is approached in laboratory experiments in the simplified model system called the Rayleigh-Bénard convection (RBC). We present preliminary measurements of vertical temperature profiles in the cell with the height of 4:7 m, 7:15m in diameter, obtained at the Barrel of Ilmenau (BOI), the worldwide largest experimental setup to study highly turbulent RBC, newly equipped with the Luna ODiSI-B optical fibre system. In our configuration, the system permits to measure the temperature with a high spatial resolution of 5mm along a very thin glass optical fibre with the length of 5m and seems to be perfectly suited for measurement of time series of instantaneous vertical temperature profiles. The system was supplemented with the two Pt100 vertically movable probes specially designed by us for reference temperature profiles measurements.
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